The following reply was made to PR kern/31403; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, kern-bug-people@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
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Subject: Re: kern/31403: /dev/ptm tries to return /dev/ptyv0 which doesn't exist
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:56:21 -0400

 On Sep 27,  2:47pm, simonb@wasabisystems.com (Simon Burge) wrote:
 -- Subject: kern/31403: /dev/ptm tries to return /dev/ptyv0 which doesn't exi
 
 |         One idea is to remove 'v' from TTY_LETTERS in tty_bsdpty.c, and
 |         then adjust /dev/MAKEDEV so that ptyw0 is the minor number after
 |         ptyuf (ie, 96).
 
 
 This is on i386. On other platforms other pty numbers are reserved...
 The simplest solution is to un-reserve the numbers/names or use ptyfs.
 I don't want to start adding unmaintainable hacks in the name of backwards
 compatibility.
 
 christos